Fleet Manager. Amateur historian with specific interest in Tunnellers of WW1 and UK mines rescue service. Book in progress - publisher @barnthorn
West Norfolk, UK
Joined November 2012
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We are delighted to welcome Lorraine Evans as a new Barnthorn author.
Lorraine is a mortuary/aviation archaeologist and death historian. Coming soon: ‘Gate Guardians – Champions of the Aviation World’.
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#AviationHistory #MilitaryHistory #SecondWorldWar
Phil Clifford retweeted
We are delighted to welcome Richard Hughes as a new Barnthorn author. ‘From a JUNIOR to the SENIOR Soldier’ charts his 24 year Army career: from a court martial at 18 to Warrant Officer Class 1 and appointment as an RSM.
#BritishArmy #MilitaryMemoir #MilitaryHistory
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COMING UP ON WW2TV!
Barnthorn author Niall Cherry (‘The Silence of Stone’) discusses the 10th Parachute Battalion at Arnhem live on Monday 21 September at 7pm (UK).
Watch/set reminder: youtube.com/live/lcMaW5Fs5xw
#Arnhem #OperationMarketGarden #SecondWorldWar
Phil Clifford retweeted
25 years ago today, on 17 August 2001, Khaki Devil was incorporated as a Private Limited Company.
What a 25 years it has been!
#KhakiDevil25
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10 August 1842. British parliament passed the Mines Act. It stopped women and children under the age of 10 from working underground. Many children, as young as 6, had previously worked shifts of up to 12 hours.
Hope someone can help. Anyone able to identify the species of bee that inhabitants my bird water tub?
Arthur Thomas Winborn. Born 01 August 1875 near Hastings. In 1902 appointed as the first Superintendent to the Tankersley Mines Rescue Station at Birdwell, it being the first such station in the UK. Awarded Edward Medal, 2nd class, in 1912. Died 1963.
Team of volunteers being schooled in how to maintain and use the Proto breathing apparatus. Picture credit: Siebe Gorman archive at Historical Diving Society, Gosport
Phil Clifford retweeted
We are always grateful to receive corrugated iron for trench building, but today’s appeal is for trench-lining boards!
We get through a lot of them so, if you have a quantity of scaffold boards, thick floorboards or something similar, which are going spare, please get in touch!
Our bird feeding station. Birds have gone through 13 suet balls and 2 feeders full of seed in less than 24 hours. Getting a tad expensive methinks 🐦 🙄
Phil Clifford retweeted
Join us in congratulating Barnthorn author Eva Chatterji on the publication of ‘Gallant Men: Forgotten Battles and Acts of Valour in the Indian Mutiny’.
Available now:
barnthornpublishing.co.uk/pr…
amazon.co.uk/dp/1917120664
#GallantMen #IndianMutiny #VictoriaCross
Recently browsed a book about trench warfare. Found reference to the 'big bang' at the Messines Ridge. Immediately spotted the reference to the explosion being heard in Downing Street! Put the book back on the shelf and moved on. #toomanymyths
Phil Clifford retweeted
We’re delighted to introduce Barnthorn author Eliot Rudnicki. His book ‘My Bubbie the Nazi’ is now available to purchase.
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#WW2 #JewishHistory #Holocaust
Arthur B Clifford. Born 13 July 1894. Asst Supt to North Staffs Mines Rescue Service by age 18. Awarded MSM in 1917 for ‘special work’ in the France (establishing mine rescue schools). From 1921 ran the MRS in Forest of Dean. Retired 1959 after 47 years service to MRS. Died 1961
Phil Clifford retweeted
On this day in 1934, Theodor Eicke was officially promoted to SS-Gruppenführer—a key step in his rise within the SS.
David McCormack’s biography examines Eicke’s role in the Nazi concentration camp system: barnthornpublishing.co.uk/pr…
#SecondWorldWar #MilitaryHistory #TheodorEicke
